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Baptiste hearing set for end of January

Sprinter Kelly-Ann Baptiste will know her fate at the end of January when she faces a panel set up by the National Association of Athletic Administration (NAAA) into the findings of a positive test. Baptiste withdrew from last year’s World Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Moscow, Russia after word broke that the 27-year-old failed a drug test earlier in the year.

Since the revelations, the NAAA has come under fire from Sports Minister Anil Roberts into the handling of the matter. NAAA president Ephraim Serrette said that all the processes are being followed.

“As far as we understand it is a positive test and there is a procedure. We are trying to see how quick this matter can be dealt with so we can move forward. It has been (a) trying time for her.”

Meanwhile, Serrette also said fellow sprinter Semoy Hackett will have her hearing in New York in February.

“The NAAA legal team and Hackett’s legal team as will be travelling to New York.”

Serrette was speaking at the Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee’s 16th annual Awards Ceremony at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port-of-Spain on Sunday. (TrackAlerts. com)

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